Following on from last months
work with the seat brackets,
we finished them by welding
four captive nuts inside the bars
for the seats to bolt to.

After trial fitting the seats we
established that they wouldn’t
fit with the minimum clearance
required between the drivers
helmet and the roof bars.
This meant that the door bars
were too high up for the seats
to sit low enough. To remedy
this we disconnected the bars
from the uprights of the main
hoop and repositioned them
lower down. There was then a
clean-up operation to remove
the original weld.

Once the cage bars had been
adjusted the seats could be fitted.

Now that the seats were in
more work could be done
to the cage. The first part
was to weld in two curved
bars at the back to give
extra strength.

The final part for this month was to fit a bar for the harnesses
to mount to. This was a straight bar that joins the two main
uprights together. As well as being a mount for the harnesses
this will also reduce any flex in the uprights should the car
roll!

More to come soon!